The first of two misadventures in the world of the wife gone to the darkside and the husband left with no choice but to serve her there, opens with Estelle Marchant’s “An Evil Awakening”. A tale set in the year of 1922 where, for one wife, a life of being second best to her husband is about to come to an end after he returns from a business trip to the East with a baffling illness that has left him with the physical strength of a child while leaving his faculties intact. A condition ensuring the domestic and sexual liberation of his wife as she takes over the reins of both the household and the company he owns and has built also… And a condition that does not improve any when she takes on a Polish housekeeper with the intention of becoming the husband’s… NANNY! Clarice Darling is up next with “A Malevolent Influence”, her description of a marriage that seems headed directly for the rocks until a husband’s bankruptcy is mitigated by the intervention of his wife’s friend… A particularly warped and calculating Anglo/Arabic friend whose help is aimed to help her realise her own desires and fantasies rather than set the wife’s marriage on a happier path… Even if the wife will find herself enjoying what that marriage becomes!